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A night ritual scene at a temple-like hall with a stone shrine niche holding a small deity murti and brass oil lamps at right. A seated man on a red-cushioned silver throne wears a white and saffron-orange head wrap, a saffron cloth over bare shoulders, rudraksha beads, a large gold pendant necklace and bangles; he smiles toward a standing man in white dhoti with gold border, bare chest, rudraksha malas and a gold pendant, who holds a folded paper. At left, a person in white with a yellow-green border raises flower garlands overhead. Swamiji (probable) is the seated figure, identified by his crown-style white head wrap, saffron clothing and ceremonial gold necklace while seated on a throne. Marigold garlands hang nearby.

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